[Maybe Spam] Re: Swiki vandalized
Ned Konz
ned at squeakland.org
Wed Jan 26 14:51:13 UTC 2005
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 3:19 am, Cees de Groot wrote:
> > These bot-driven defacements are EASY to fix(*).
>
> If they're really bot-driven, they're even easier to prevent, I think. Add
> a gif-with-numbers (should be easy enough to create a Squeak snippet to
> generate that) for human-presence confirmation on edits, and add
> 'rel="nofollow"' to all the links and prominently display that fact on the
> edit page (actually, I have mixed feelings about that latter bit as well).
Another strategy is to redirect people making edits with more than (say) 4
external links via another page that then would require some interaction, or
login, or something else. Bots won't bother.
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Ned Konz
http://bike-nomad.com/squeak/
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